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2275 – photo’s and etchings of 19 monasteries from 1904

On this commercial Russian website (sviatogora.com) I found old images from (almost) all Athos monasteries. There is also a translation in English. They claim that the old photo’s amd etchings of the 19 monateries are all from1904, but I was … Continue reading

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2251 – Swiss photographer Fred Boissonnas in Vatopedi -1928/30

On my last journey to Athos in September/October 2022 I spend one day in Thessaloniki. Because we published the photos of the photographer Boissonnas earlier on this weblog (1485), I made a visit to this small museum MOmus on the … Continue reading

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2238 – Athos photo exhibition “Between Heaven and Earth” in Germany by Theodosios

Tomorrow, Thursday 14th of April at 19h AM an exhibition will open (for only four days) of pictures made by the German monk who lives and works in Simonospetras, Theodosios. The exhibition is in the town Ursensollen in the culural … Continue reading

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1430 – book: Athos by Kość and Zinneker 1988

Zbigniew Kość, born 1951 in Gdansk (Poland), graduated in social psychology. Zbigniew Kość absolved secondary studies in photography and graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. Jannis Zinneker, born in 1943, is from Switserland and he has been visiting Mount … Continue reading

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